Toy vehicle



J. KAPFER.

TOY VEHICLE. APPLICATION FILED AUG-II, 1919.

Patented Feb. 10,1920.

JOSEPH KAPFER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

TOY VEHICLE.

Specification of Letters Batent.

Application filed August 11, 1919. Serial No. 316,535.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH KAPFER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton andState of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in ToyVehicles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is a toy vehicle which in motion resemblesthe movement of an object upon the water.

I This object is attained by the means described in the specificationand illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1, is a longitudinal sectional view of a toy embodying myinvention.

Fig. 2, is a side elevation thereof.

Fig. 3, is a sectional view taken upon lin 83 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4, is a detail perspective view of the sounding device.

The platform A of the vehicle has a central longitudinal slot acrosswhich is mounted a pivot rod 6, which extends through a lug b whichextends centrally downward from the floating object B. 'Atone end of theobject a link D is pivoted, as at d, the opposite end of the link beingeccentrically pivoted at cl to a wheel a of the vehicle. The linkextends through a longitudinal slot a in the platform.

Secured around the edges of the platform and extending thence loosely tothe body B, is a sheet of flexible material such as canvas or duck E,upon which representations of waves are printed.

In use when it is moved along the ground, the rotation of the wheelrocks the object upon the pivot rod 6 and the-object imparts a series ofconstantly changing undulations to the flexible material, so thattheundulations thereof combined with the representations of wavesthereon give the impression of waves upon a body of water and cause theobject to have the appearance of riding upon the waves.

Mounted between the body and the platform is a sounding device which isactuated by the movement of the article or body B. A preferredembodiment of the sounding device is a horn comprising abox G, and abellows 9. Box G has perforations g and 9 in the former of which islocated a reed or other vibratory device and the latter of which leadsinto the bellows, which is connected to object B, so that it is expandedand contracted by it, in its expansion draw- Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

ing air into box G and on contracting expolling it and vibrating thesounding device. The sound of the device is muflied by the cover E andcauses it to resemble a sound upon the water. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a toy vehicle the combination of a vehicle, an article mountedupon the vehicle, means adapted to impart a rocklng motion to thearticle and a sheet of flexible material secured to the vehicle and tothe article extending loosely between them. and permitting a rockingmovement of the article upon the vehicle.

2. In a toy vehicle the combination of a I vehicle, an article mountedupon the vehicle, 7

means adapted to impart a rocking motion to the article and a sheet offlexible material secured to the vehicle and to'the article extendingloosely betweenthem and permitting a rocking movement of the articleupon the vehicle and a sounding device located beneath the article andadapted to be actuated by the movement of the article.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 4th day ofAugust, 1919.

JOSEPH KAPFER.

